Vegetable Marrow Jam
Margaret Heagney
Margaret Heagney 21st July 2017 Deerpark Social Services Centre, Ballinasloe, Co. Galway
Vegetable Marrow Jam
Interviewer: Clare Doyle (CD)
Interviewee: Margaret Heagney (MH)
CD: And your mother could make the brown bread and tarts?
MH: Oh we never bought bread. Oh the bread…she used to make it on the pan, so it was nice and thin. It didn’t have a lot of dough in it, so I didn’t mind that so much.
CD: Right
MH: ‘Twas nice
CD: You liked the thin bread?
MH: Oh I did, it didn’t have much dough and you’d have butter and you’d have jam.
CD: Would you make our own jam or would you buy it?
MH: Oh, made all, you bought nothing. You made all your own jam.
CD: What kind of a jam now, would you make?
MH: Well, the most thing we used to have was vegetable marrow jam. We used to grow them ourselves.
CD: Alright.
MH: My mother would keep the seed out of the marrows and she’d sow them in little pots. She’d go out in the garden then and dig a little corner and plant them…
CD: And who…
MH: The marrows would come…they’d be that size…
CD: Yeah, I was going to say, they’d be big
MH: Yes, oh very big
CD: And what, would she boil them then after that?
MH: No, no it would … we’d clean them and peel them and clean out the insides and cut them up into small little pieces. And I can’t remember was there sugar put on it. It was left overnight and it would be flowing with water…
Cd: Right
MH: …next day, and that was out into the pot and out over the fire and we’d be told, “stir that, stir the jam”
CD: And that would be your jam made then in a couple of hours?
MH: Yes! She’d put the jam then into the press, we’d have all kinds of jam, every kind, everything she could get
CD: That would be nice on the bread?
MH: T’was for the bread, yes,
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